January 18, 2018 2 comments
Young people who divide their time between their parents after divorce enjoy better mental health, new research suggests. Researchers at RKBU Vest (the Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare) in Bergen, Norway, compared different living arrangements made by divorced parents for their children. A total of 7700 children were polled…
September 13, 2017 2 comments
Children who spend equal time with both parents following divorce or separation have better mental health than other children, a new study suggests. A team of researchers examined data relating to 3656 Swedish children between the ages of three and five years. Some were living with both their parents in an intact family; some in…
July 5, 2017 19 comments
The children of single mothers do just as well growing up as their peers with two parents, a new study suggests. A researcher from the VU (Vrije Universiteit) University Medical Centre in Amsterdam has challenged the notion that a child must be raised by both parents to avoid difficulties in their youth and later in…
June 23, 2017 7 comments
Children who grew up in a single-parent household are less happy and less well off than their peers, a new study suggests. Almost a quarter – 24 per cent – of children in the UK are currently being raised by one parent and in as many as 80 per cent of those cases they are…
November 25, 2016 15 comments
The promises made by the government in this week’s Autumn Statement are not enough to help struggling families, a charity has claimed. Single parent organisation Gingerbread has said that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond “missed a crucial opportunity” to help single parent families. Measures announced during the Statement included an increase in the national…
October 26, 2016 9 comments
Single parents in the UK are owed millions of pounds in child maintenance, a new study suggests. Campaign charity Gingerbread claims that as much as £6 million is owed to such parents in West Yorkshire, Grimsby, Nottingham, Milton Keynes and Telford alone. The organisation maintains that the average amount of unpaid child maintenance is more…
October 12, 2016 2 comments
Children who grow up with only one parent are more likely to experience emotional and behavioural difficulties, a new study suggests. This week the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland published an analysis of data gathered on 18,000 of the country’s children over a ten year span. The research was conducted in order…
August 18, 2016 0 comments
A single father who used a surrogate mother to have a child hopes the laws which regulate these agreements will soon be changed. The man’s son was born two years ago following a surrogacy agreement with a woman in the United States. The child was conceived using a third party donor egg. Under American law,…
April 21, 2016 8 comments
This evening Marilyn Stowe had the great honour of delivering the prestigious Mark Bailey Lecture 2016 at the Grammar School at Leeds. This now annual series of lectures aims to inspire and engage its audience. Ladies and Gentlemen You should never judge a book by its cover. I may not appear to be an…
January 27, 2016 4 comments
Children whose parents share care and residence are happier than the offspring of single parents, Swedish researchers have claimed. In a study with the wordy title Psychological complaints among children in joint physical custody and other family types: Considering parental factors, researchers from Stockholm University and the nearby Karolinska Institutet examined demographic data relating to…
